August 29, 2024 • 27 mins
Ben and Jessica Higgins sit down with you to share all the personal details about their baby girl on the way. Why did Jessica never think getting pregnant was going to be a possibility for her? They open up about everything.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Ben and Ashley I almost Famous podcast
with iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's time for the almost famous podcast. We are here,
Well it's not we. I mean it is we, but
it isn't your typical we. Ashley isn't with us today
because today is our very special episode talking about a
new baby into the Higgins family. My wife Jessica's here
with me today as my co host.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah, and we both were pink today on accident.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It was on accident. I did not think about that.
That actually feels like something I would stay away from doing.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yeah, you're not a fan of it, but I love it.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah, Today we're here just to give you some of
the insights, the details. We haven't talked to anybody yet
except for you know, on social media about kind of
our big announcement and the path to getting there and
what we're excited about, and so I think we just
wanted to sit down with the almost famous listeners and
kind of explain everything. I think the big first question
(00:58):
that people are asking and that we should be answering
is was this expected?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yes, it was very expected, and I had been trying
for a decent amount of time and we were referred
to a fertility clinic by my doctor because I wasn't
ovulating regularly, so we did this through a fertility clinic.
We did IUI, which is the step before IVF. So
(01:27):
I don't know should I get into what IUI is?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, I think people would be interested.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Okay, So IUI is where I took some medicine or
hormone stimulating medicine for about two weeks.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I call it. So when somebody asked me to explain it,
I say, it just makes you like a baby making machine.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
It took me like a month to make myself a
baby making machine. So I took some medicine and then
when the timing was right, I gave myself a shot
to make myself ovulate and then it's basically direct sperm insertion.
And it's like the medical way to explain it.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Is that explain that?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I feel so aggressive.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
That was my one and only job?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
He crushed it. We Yeah, it actually it took us
one try of IUI. So when it comes to fertility journeys,
we got really really lucky. We had a great doctor,
we had a great experience, and I kind of had
a feeling it worked on the first try. They were
going to give us six tries for EUI before IVF,
and so Ben was like, we have about six months,
(02:32):
so he was shocked when it worked on the first try.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I was shocked. I mean, I'm surprised just because I know,
you know, it's not easy. Uh, And I think you're
always going to be a little shocked, like when somebody
tells you, hey, you have a little baby coming into
this world and it's inside of me, Like, I think
that's a little shocking idea.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Right, Yeah, that's true. It's still kind of weird.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well, so how many weeks long are you as of
this show?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
As of this very second, I'm sixteen weeks exactly, baby
size of a avocado, four to five inches long.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
But we have known for a while, so we found
out when the baby was what three weeks?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Well, counting pregnancy weeks is so weird because like I was,
technically we knew exactly I was two weeks, but they
counted like two weeks before that, So we've known since
I was in pregnancy terms four weeks, four.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Weeks, Okay, since we've found out, how did you tell me?
I tie, I guess how did you find out? And
then how did you tell me?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
So after IUI, they say you can take a pregnancy
test at home two weeks later, and it was literally
exactly two weeks and I woke up at four am
like so excited because I just had this gut feeling
that it was going to be positive, and I'd taken
so many negative pregnancy tests that I just wanted to
see a positive so bad, even if something happened in
(03:53):
the pregnancy, I was just I was so excited. So
I woke up at four am. I took the test
and just kind of like stared at it for about
two hours, and then Ben was I heard Ben moving
upstairs and Whalan, our dog, was downstairs with me. So
I tied a bandana around Whale that said big brother,
and I said him up to.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Wake you up, and he did wake me up. I
just thought he was looking cute with the bandana. I
didn't know what the bandana sex, it was so early
in the morning, but then I finally looked at it
and it said I'm going to be a big brother,
which was the cutest thing, like double cutest thing to see.
Little Wayne in wanted to be a big brother and
he was so happy. He was so proud, so proud
of his bandana, so proud to wake me up. Now.
(04:35):
From that point forward, I think for us, we kind
of sat in it just with each other. We were excited,
and you know, we talked about it a lot, but
it was something that we kind of wanted to hold
on to for for not only like the appropriate reasons
where it's like, hey, we just don't need to tell
everybody right away, but also just you know, for our
own privacy. However, at about two weeks later, my parents
(05:00):
came to visit, and it was Father's Day, and so
we were going to obviously do a FaceTime with your parents,
and so we decided at that point to tell them first.
Walk us through how we told both, because I think
they're both really special.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yes, so for my dad, me and my siblings pitched
in will meet my siblings, and our spouses pitched in
to get him one of those picture frames. I think
we did the Aura frame where you can upload a
photo and it'll show it in real time. Because my
brother has a baby, and we obviously live far away.
(05:34):
My little brother lives far away, so it's fun to
be able to share photos back and forth. So we
got in this picture frame, and since I bought it,
I had like the activation code, so I said, you
have to FaceTime me so I can teach him how
to set it up whatever. So everyone was together for
Father's Day brunch and they facetimed me and I gave
him the activation code and then I was explaining how
it worked. Now you can upload a photo in real time,
(05:57):
and I was like, here, I'll upload a photo and
show you how it works. And I uploaded my positive
pregnancy test. So my whole family was there, minus my
little brother who he facetimed earlier that day and just
told But they were so excited and so surprised.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
We do have that, like on video, right, Yeah, I'm
share that at some point.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yeah, we can share that video. And then for Ben's dad,
they came the day after Father's Day and we got
him a Father's Day card that said the best dads
get promoted to Grandpa. And he gave it to him
in person and he said, are you trying to tell
me something?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And you said, yes, I'm pregnant. You know I'm an
only child, So I think my parents I'm not kidding
when I say I feel like I remember them talking
about having grandkids when I was still in high school. Yeah,
like I think this is their super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yeah, they're so excited.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
But the cool part is your parents and my parents.
I never realized this, I guess growing up. Grandparents get
really excited about having grandkids. Like both of our sets
of parents aren't just like this is gonna be awesome.
They're like over the moon, referring to it as their baby,
Like they are so excited.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I mean, you get all of the fun of having
a kid with none of the responsibility, Like they've already
had the responsibility part. This is just fun for them,
you know.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
So it must be fun to have a kid. Though
at least it's it's like enjoyable enough where you're like,
I want to do this again.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I think it's gonna be so fun.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah, that's I mean, that's I think where we need
to transition into next is you know, somebody wrote in
and asked, how do you think I'll be as a
girl dad, because obviously we did find out the gender.
We're both wanting to find out the gender. I think
for me and my reasoning is, I'm more of a
like planner. I don't like inefficiencies, and so I was
thinking if people are gonna get stuff for us and
(07:51):
we're gonna buy stuff for ourselves, we should know the gender.
So everything like matches, you know, ready go, We're off
and running and I just don't want to wait. Yeah,
and I'm glad we did find out. Yeah, but we
did find out it was a baby girl. So how
do you think I'll be as a girl dad.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I think you're gonna be the best girl dad in
the whole world. I think you're just going to love
her and encourage her and tell her she's beautiful. And
I know the way that you make me feel, and
I just can't imagine the way you're going to make
our daughter feel, just like so wrapped in love. You're
also more emotional than me, not at this very second,
(08:29):
but in normal life, and so I just think she's
gonna wreck you in like the best way. Yeah. I
sent them a video on Instagram yesterday of a little
girl in a princess dress showing her dad. He replied
and said, why would you send this?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Very sweet?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
It was very sweet. I just can't wait for a
little girl to run up to in a princess dress
and hug you and just getting emotional talking about.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
It, just stop talking about it. I feel like I
am more set up to be a father of a
girl at this point, now that we found this out.
Like at first, I was like, oh, man, like it'd
(09:16):
be fun to just like let them, you know, get dirty,
And we're gonna still do that. But boys are different.
We have a lot of boys that live around us,
and all of our friends have had boys. Boys just
kind of cause chaos. I'm sure girls do that in
their own beautiful way. But I do feel like when
it comes to especially especially the motions, like the emotions,
I'm better set up for it. I'm just worried that
(09:38):
I'm gonna become like a mess, like I'm going to
lose all toughness, and I don't have a lot left,
Like I don't think I've ever any of the left.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I think you have a lot of toughness left. And
I think that when she's a teenager, you'll like get
that grip back. But I think when she's really little,
I do think she's gonna have you wrapped around her
finger in the best way.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Well, you know. I think the question then ride back
to you is how do you feel like you're gonna
be raising a girl? And are you excited for it?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I I'm so excited. I need to start by saying
that I just always thought I was going to be
a boy mom, Like I grew up doing sports, I
grew up with brothers. I like just feel like I
would have a lot of fun with a little boy.
But now that I know it's a girl, I'm so
I feel like I'm just carrying my best friend and
my belly. Like I know the relationship I have with
(10:29):
my mom, and I just feel like we're gonna be
like the very best of friends. And she's gonna be
my little twin. And she might not be, but my prayers,
that were really good friends. And I'm so excited to
get all the girly things, Like we got a box
of bows from my mom, and I like that made
me so excited because I'm I'm just excited to be
a girl. Mom. I don't know every bit of it.
(10:51):
I'm excited to watch princess movies with her, dress up
with her. It's gonna be so fun.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I only know how to put a bow on a girl.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
And no, he didn't know how to open the bu No.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I didn't actually hurt my finger. I actually cut my
finger trying to do it. There's been some really fun
things that have happened that I think people would enjoy
hearing about, and I always enjoy joy hearing about it. Obviously,
this is something that we wanted, we planned for, we're
excited about. This wasn't like an unexpected shock to us,
but it's been an unexpected level of joy that I
(11:21):
think you and I both experienced. You've been a trooper.
You felt pretty terrible for a long time, like you've
been really sick through this journey, and now you're starting
to feel like, come, you know, to the other side.
Food isn't so much of a weird turn off, it's
now like you're more into it. Do you want to
elaborate on that at all?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah. I was really sick my first trimester, just in
every way you can possibly imagine. And I wouldn't take
nausee and medicine for a long time because that first trimester,
you like don't look pregnant, and the only way you
really feel pregnant is with your nausea. And I was like,
I just want the reminder that like, she's there and
she's good, because I always heard nauseum in a healthy baby,
(12:02):
but then it got to the point where I was like,
give me, give me the meds.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Like she's there, she's good, give me the meds.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
But yeah, it was the first trimester. Everyone said, it's
really hard. It's really hard. But looking back, like it's
a blur now.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
You know, Yeah, I guess for you, probably for me,
it feels like it was last week, which kind of was.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
It's it's interesting to see just like evolve into this
mom like to be sick and kind of want to
be sick, like in this weird way, like I don't
understand it, and I'm so thankful that she's the one
carrying this child, because I think for me, i'd be like,
just give me the medicine right away. I don't want
to feel this at all. But you have just really
(12:47):
like enjoyed already kind of becoming a mom and being
a mom. It's been really fun to watch. Uh. But
obviously there have been, you know, stages to this process,
us of wanting to have a baby, waiting for that
positive test, waiting a few more weeks to tell anybody.
So you and I were just kind of living in
(13:08):
our own world. There's a spot out here in Colorado
that you've kind of been visiting and just praying. You've
shared about it on your social media, but prayer has
been a big kind of foundation for you during this time,
Like it's really been something you've leaned on. What have
you kind of learned through those moments of silence?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Yeah, I with my job, I talked to women all
day and I've heard great stories about pregnancy and horrible
stories about pregnancy and the highs and the lows, and
it's like terrified me a little bit. So I've had
a lot of days where I've just felt really uneasy
and like why should we have a healthy baby? Like
why do we get to have one? And so in
(13:54):
those moments, I've just gone and like sat and just
prayed a lot of prayers of like thankfulness and just
I can't believe I'm this lucky to have a healthy baby,
but also just like take away these anxieties, Like I
don't want to project those anxieties onto my baby, and
I also just don't want to feel that way when
this is a really exciting time. I know most first
(14:15):
time moms get those. You know, you're scared, you're like
responsible for this little life, and you want to do
everything to make sure it's okay, but a lot of
it's out of your control. So that the prayer garden
I go to, just it's brought me so much peace.
Like I just leave there and I'm like, ah, everything's okay.
Even if I can't control that, it's going to be okay.
(14:35):
So I think just like giving up a lot of
those control pieces has been huge for me.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
And that's been the most common prayer that you've been praying,
is the control piece.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Yeah, And like I don't want to feel anxious this
whole time, Like I don't want to feel anxious for
the next twenty four weeks. I want to continue to
be excited.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
You can feel anxious for the next twenty four weeks
because then I'll take over and.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Feel anxious to eighteen years.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Probably longer than that. Yeah, this, you know, I think
it's been really fun to just fun and you know,
it reminds you. I think it's a good reminder of
why we got married too. It was like what about
each other that we love, respected, appreciated. You know, you're
married for a few years, you're living life side by side.
(15:22):
We've had a really fun couple of years just the
two of us. And then you know, we we enter
into this new stage of life and you see how
your partner is reacting to it, and it's like, no,
this is why, you know, this is what I thought
I was getting at the beginning, you know, and why
we we wanted to commit to each other for the
rest of our lives. It is a really exciting time.
I would say personally, I have had many different emotions,
(15:47):
like I can't and I've we've talked about it. I
can't honestly say that the idea of having a chot
like a baby ever like euphorically brought joy to me.
When we were talking about it, I was like, I
know it's something I want to do. I know it's
something that I will enjoy doing. I have no clue
what that looks like. I don't even know what I'm
(16:08):
excited about. Yeah, but I'm not like I was. I
tried to be as honest with you as possible. It
was like I don't want to tell you, like, yes,
I am so overly excited about this. There was actually
like kind of like a numbness and emotion towards it.
There was an anxiety when we were talking through it
was more of just a I don't even know what
(16:28):
this means, Like I don't even know what this is
that I should be expecting. And I like to prepare
myself for big moments, and I couldn't prepare myself for this.
So then we find out we're pregnant. You're pregnant. We're
not pregnant. No, I'm very much not a part of
this team right now. I have zero role other than
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just like kind of stay out of the way. But
and then when we find out we found out, I
was immediately so anxious, like so nervous, Like my mind
went to, what in the world am I about to do?
I'm not ready for this. I'm a child myself. I
don't have that anything prepared. What am I doing? Like,
(17:14):
how do we think this makes work? And then I
just kept remind myself when you're thirty five years old,
if you're not gonna do it now, you're never gonna
do it. Okay. Then the next stage was emotion. I
could watch the stupidest videos on Instagram or a commercial
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with a child running up to their dad and just
start crying. And now I'm in this like really comfortable
place of peace, excitement. I think I understand better what
we're getting, Like, I don't think I'll ever fully understand
what it's like to raise a little baby, but you
just kind of jump in. But now I'm kind of
in this season of I think I know better enough
(17:59):
to be like we can do this together. But you
have felt like you've just been excited the whole time.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Yeah, I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Explain yourself, like how is this something like you're bringing
life into this world and yet like your peace of
mind and your joy and excitement has been consistent since
really the moment we started trying.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Yeah, I'm I'm gonna get tierry talking about it. But
like when I was little, when people asked what do
you want to be when you grew up? I always
said I wanted to be a mom. It was a
princess mom to be specific. Yeah, I want to be
a princess mommy up until like seventh grade, like when
it was like way inappropriate for that to be what
(18:43):
you want to be when you grew up. But like
I grew up nannying, i grew up babysitting. I've had cousins,
and I've just always had this like I want to
be a mom. And then when you and I got married,
I was like, Okay, I'm not ready to be a
mom yet, Like I want to really enjoy this time
just me and you. I like felt almost selfish with
my time with you because we dated long distance and
(19:05):
you and I have so much fun together just the
two of us. That then I went through a season
where I was like and we kind of talked about it,
like maybe we're not like kid people, like maybe we
don't do it.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
But then that did not wast long.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
No, it lasted for about a month, but we did
talk about it.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
We did.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
But then I don't know, something like in the last
year or whenever, we were like, this could be a
good time for us to start to think about a baby,
it was like go time, like so exciting. And then
because I've I've not taken the best care of my
body in the past. I've been really open about having
(19:41):
eating disorders, and I was a long distance runner, and
I've I thought I would never be able to carry
my own baby. And we talked about that too, even
before we got married, like I was getting testing done
to make sure like it was even a possibility, and
every doctor told me it was a possibility. But then
we were having a hard time. I was just kind
of like, what if this doesn't happen for me? And
(20:04):
it's it really is like my heart's desire. Since I
was an itty bitty girl, I used to carry my
baby dolls around. My mom would carry my little brother,
like I've had that instinct. So then when I found
out that we were like when I saw the positive
pregnancy test, it was like I just never thought that
was gonna happen for me, and the fact that it
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has is just like I'm sorry, you can It's I've
never been this happy, Like I've never been so like
proud of my body and just even though it's changing
and it's sometimes uncomfortable, like I'm so excited for all
the changes and I'm so excited that I have this
baby growing because I never thought that i'd be able
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to so even when it's hard, and even when I
was so sick, I was just so like excited. And
I've just been so grateful this whole time. But yeah,
I've like I've genuinely I don't think i've been this
happy since like you and I got engaged and married,
Like I have just had so much, I know, but
(21:13):
I mean those are like these are Those are like
the two biggest moments of joy I've had. So I
can't even imagine meeting her. I'm just like, I'm so
thankful that I'm able to have a baby. I never
thought i'd be able to, So I just feel really
excited and like so grateful.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Yeah, you should be proud of yourself too, Like I
don't know how to I don't even know how to
say it. I don't know if I ever have. But
it is interesting with your your past and just having
you know, this long distance running career and having to
keep your body in what you imagine and what people
were kind of telling you in this like really like
(21:52):
lean overly like athletic state, and then the repercussions from
that for you emotionally, mentally, physically, and now for like
your biggest fear out of that like kind of the
unknown of Yeah, but what else has this done to
my body? And for you now to be pregnant is
like a really big thing to celebrate and just hopefully
(22:15):
like some like peace.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Yeah, it's it has given me so much peace, and
like just I just feel like this baby is such
a sign of like redemption. Like there's there's nothing that
like I can do that can't be undone almost even
that's probably an over generalization and not true, but I.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Really do feel that way right now in this season,
in this I think it's very fair for you to
feel that way. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Yeah, so I don't know. I'm just I'm so excited
and thankful.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
It is a big deal. Jessica's pregnant and Ben.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Has been so sweet in this pregnancy. He's like dropped
everything to go get frozen yogurt with me. He's made
me what I want for dinner, which.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Is which is wild. Like the dinner stuff doesn't make
any sense. I mean sometimes it's mac and cheese with
ice cream, yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Or like all I want is like plain buttered pasta,
Like that's like sounds so good to me all the time.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yeah, it's been weird.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Land no vegetables.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
We've had fun with it though, and we're having a
great time. We're very excited to be parents. We're ready prepared.
Final kind of like rapid fire, honey questions for you
just to kind of answer anything that was written in
so we can kind of go through it. Do we
have any names picked out? You don't have to share
them because I was told by wells Adams to not
share the baby names because it opens you up for
(23:37):
more feedback than what you really want.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
I've heard that too, so we're not going to share them.
But we do have a top three list that is
open to change. But we feel pretty good about our
top three.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
How did we come up with the baby announcement idea?
Speaker 3 (23:51):
I asked you how you wanted to announce the baby,
and you said you wanted a video of our love story,
so we made one.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
That video wrecked me too. I just I feel like
I'm holding on by a thread any moment I am libel,
Like right now, I'm liable to break down the nursery.
Do you want to share kind of the theme of
the nursery? I kind of think I did last week,
maybe more than I expected to. So do you want
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to share the theme and why it's the theme.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
We're doing a very subtle, not like over the top,
Winnie the Pooh theme, So we're gonna have some little
Winnie the Pooh elements because Ben and I love Winnie
the Pooh. It was both of our favorites growing up,
and we had some of our best friends read one
of the Pooh quotes at our wedding, like it's just
been a big part of our love story randomly. So
it's gonna have some little Winnie the Pooh elements. And
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then Ben wants to paint the walls pink, which just
melted me.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Goodness, I do want to paint them pink?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Is so sweet.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah, we're gonna paint them pink. It's gonna be really
pretty goodness. All right, final question for you, Han, what
is the thing you're most excited to teach your new
baby girl?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Oh my gosh, like deeper surface level, whatever you want, Like,
what's the first thing that comes to mind? I really
can't wait to watch Disney movies with you.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Yeah, I thought that would be.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
I can't wait to like show her all the princess stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
You've been waiting for an excuse to watch Disney movies
for a long time.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
You might have to rewatch before to make sure, like
they're appropriate.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I think anything's appropriate.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
For me.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I think I think what Like when it's the question
of what I want to tea what I'm my most
excited teacher? I think I'm really excited just show her
what family she's entering into, Like we have great parents,
incredible siblings, really great like aunts and uncles and grandparents
(25:54):
and just like we got a really good thing going
and I feel very grateful for that. Like every night
when I go to bed, I pray that I'm thankful
for you and our dog and a baby girl and
then this amazing family and now everybody gets that, and
so I'm excited for her to meet them.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Yeah. I've said this to so many, like all the
people that are shared in our joy, our friends, our family,
everybody like this baby. I just I can't imagine someone
coming to the world more love than our daughter.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Goodness are we have a full closet already.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
We've got a hand me down.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
I've asked people not to give us stuff.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Oh goodness, She's got a lot of hand me downs, but.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Not all hand me down.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
And a lot of people out lover her.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Goodness. We'll keep you updated as we go. We want
to do this with almost famous listeners because we haven't
done an interview yet. You've kind of kept it close
to our chest, you know. But we're very excited. We're
very ready, though, as ready as you can be. Wailing
gonna be great. He's already sleeping on top of Jess
at night literally like head on the belly. I think
(27:04):
he's gonna rock and roll this thing in the best
of ways. He's going to be such a stud. So
everybody's really ready, everybody's really prepared. We're excited. Uh, but
we'll keep you updated as big things happen. A way
to go, you have a long ways to go. My
life hasn't changed that much, so until next time, I've
(27:24):
been Ben Jess. We'll share the name of the baby
girl who's with us as well when she's born.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Follow the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcasts on
iHeartRadio or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.
This is the Ben and Ashley I almost Famous podcast
with iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's time for the almost famous podcast. We are here,
Well it's not we. I mean it is we, but
it isn't your typical we. Ashley isn't with us today
because today is our very special episode talking about a
new baby into the Higgins family. My wife Jessica's here
with me today as my co host.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah, and we both were pink today on accident.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It was on accident. I did not think about that.
That actually feels like something I would stay away from doing.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Yeah, you're not a fan of it, but I love it.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah, Today we're here just to give you some of
the insights, the details. We haven't talked to anybody yet
except for you know, on social media about kind of
our big announcement and the path to getting there and
what we're excited about, and so I think we just
wanted to sit down with the almost famous listeners and
kind of explain everything. I think the big first question
(00:58):
that people are asking and that we should be answering
is was this expected?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yes, it was very expected, and I had been trying
for a decent amount of time and we were referred
to a fertility clinic by my doctor because I wasn't
ovulating regularly, so we did this through a fertility clinic.
We did IUI, which is the step before IVF. So
(01:27):
I don't know should I get into what IUI is?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, I think people would be interested.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Okay, So IUI is where I took some medicine or
hormone stimulating medicine for about two weeks.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I call it. So when somebody asked me to explain it,
I say, it just makes you like a baby making machine.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
It took me like a month to make myself a
baby making machine. So I took some medicine and then
when the timing was right, I gave myself a shot
to make myself ovulate and then it's basically direct sperm insertion.
And it's like the medical way to explain it.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Is that explain that?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I feel so aggressive.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
What happened?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
That was my one and only job?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
He crushed it. We Yeah, it actually it took us
one try of IUI. So when it comes to fertility journeys,
we got really really lucky. We had a great doctor,
we had a great experience, and I kind of had
a feeling it worked on the first try. They were
going to give us six tries for EUI before IVF,
and so Ben was like, we have about six months,
(02:32):
so he was shocked when it worked on the first try.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I was shocked. I mean, I'm surprised just because I know,
you know, it's not easy. Uh, And I think you're
always going to be a little shocked, like when somebody
tells you, hey, you have a little baby coming into
this world and it's inside of me, Like, I think
that's a little shocking idea.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Right, Yeah, that's true. It's still kind of weird.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well, so how many weeks long are you as of
this show?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
As of this very second, I'm sixteen weeks exactly, baby
size of a avocado, four to five inches long.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
But we have known for a while, so we found
out when the baby was what three weeks?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Well, counting pregnancy weeks is so weird because like I was,
technically we knew exactly I was two weeks, but they
counted like two weeks before that, So we've known since
I was in pregnancy terms four weeks, four.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Weeks, Okay, since we've found out, how did you tell me?
I tie, I guess how did you find out? And
then how did you tell me?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
So after IUI, they say you can take a pregnancy
test at home two weeks later, and it was literally
exactly two weeks and I woke up at four am
like so excited because I just had this gut feeling
that it was going to be positive, and I'd taken
so many negative pregnancy tests that I just wanted to
see a positive so bad, even if something happened in
(03:53):
the pregnancy, I was just I was so excited. So
I woke up at four am. I took the test
and just kind of like stared at it for about
two hours, and then Ben was I heard Ben moving
upstairs and Whalan, our dog, was downstairs with me. So
I tied a bandana around Whale that said big brother,
and I said him up to.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Wake you up, and he did wake me up. I
just thought he was looking cute with the bandana. I
didn't know what the bandana sex, it was so early
in the morning, but then I finally looked at it
and it said I'm going to be a big brother,
which was the cutest thing, like double cutest thing to see.
Little Wayne in wanted to be a big brother and
he was so happy. He was so proud, so proud
of his bandana, so proud to wake me up. Now.
(04:35):
From that point forward, I think for us, we kind
of sat in it just with each other. We were excited,
and you know, we talked about it a lot, but
it was something that we kind of wanted to hold
on to for for not only like the appropriate reasons
where it's like, hey, we just don't need to tell
everybody right away, but also just you know, for our
own privacy. However, at about two weeks later, my parents
(05:00):
came to visit, and it was Father's Day, and so
we were going to obviously do a FaceTime with your parents,
and so we decided at that point to tell them first.
Walk us through how we told both, because I think
they're both really special.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Yes, so for my dad, me and my siblings pitched
in will meet my siblings, and our spouses pitched in
to get him one of those picture frames. I think
we did the Aura frame where you can upload a
photo and it'll show it in real time. Because my
brother has a baby, and we obviously live far away.
(05:34):
My little brother lives far away, so it's fun to
be able to share photos back and forth. So we
got in this picture frame, and since I bought it,
I had like the activation code, so I said, you
have to FaceTime me so I can teach him how
to set it up whatever. So everyone was together for
Father's Day brunch and they facetimed me and I gave
him the activation code and then I was explaining how
it worked. Now you can upload a photo in real time,
(05:57):
and I was like, here, I'll upload a photo and
show you how it works. And I uploaded my positive
pregnancy test. So my whole family was there, minus my
little brother who he facetimed earlier that day and just
told But they were so excited and so surprised.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
We do have that, like on video, right, Yeah, I'm
share that at some point.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yeah, we can share that video. And then for Ben's dad,
they came the day after Father's Day and we got
him a Father's Day card that said the best dads
get promoted to Grandpa. And he gave it to him
in person and he said, are you trying to tell
me something?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And you said, yes, I'm pregnant. You know I'm an
only child, So I think my parents I'm not kidding
when I say I feel like I remember them talking
about having grandkids when I was still in high school. Yeah,
like I think this is their super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yeah, they're so excited.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
But the cool part is your parents and my parents.
I never realized this, I guess growing up. Grandparents get
really excited about having grandkids. Like both of our sets
of parents aren't just like this is gonna be awesome.
They're like over the moon, referring to it as their baby,
Like they are so excited.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I mean, you get all of the fun of having
a kid with none of the responsibility, Like they've already
had the responsibility part. This is just fun for them,
you know.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
So it must be fun to have a kid. Though
at least it's it's like enjoyable enough where you're like,
I want to do this again.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I think it's gonna be so fun.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah, that's I mean, that's I think where we need
to transition into next is you know, somebody wrote in
and asked, how do you think I'll be as a
girl dad, because obviously we did find out the gender.
We're both wanting to find out the gender. I think
for me and my reasoning is, I'm more of a
like planner. I don't like inefficiencies, and so I was
thinking if people are gonna get stuff for us and
(07:51):
we're gonna buy stuff for ourselves, we should know the gender.
So everything like matches, you know, ready go, We're off
and running and I just don't want to wait. Yeah,
and I'm glad we did find out. Yeah, but we
did find out it was a baby girl. So how
do you think I'll be as a girl dad.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I think you're gonna be the best girl dad in
the whole world. I think you're just going to love
her and encourage her and tell her she's beautiful. And
I know the way that you make me feel, and
I just can't imagine the way you're going to make
our daughter feel, just like so wrapped in love. You're
also more emotional than me, not at this very second,
(08:29):
but in normal life, and so I just think she's
gonna wreck you in like the best way. Yeah. I
sent them a video on Instagram yesterday of a little
girl in a princess dress showing her dad. He replied
and said, why would you send this?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Very sweet?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
It was very sweet. I just can't wait for a
little girl to run up to in a princess dress
and hug you and just getting emotional talking about.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
It, just stop talking about it. I feel like I
am more set up to be a father of a
girl at this point, now that we found this out.
Like at first, I was like, oh, man, like it'd
(09:16):
be fun to just like let them, you know, get dirty,
And we're gonna still do that. But boys are different.
We have a lot of boys that live around us,
and all of our friends have had boys. Boys just
kind of cause chaos. I'm sure girls do that in
their own beautiful way. But I do feel like when
it comes to especially especially the motions, like the emotions,
I'm better set up for it. I'm just worried that
(09:38):
I'm gonna become like a mess, like I'm going to
lose all toughness, and I don't have a lot left,
Like I don't think I've ever any of the left.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I think you have a lot of toughness left. And
I think that when she's a teenager, you'll like get
that grip back. But I think when she's really little,
I do think she's gonna have you wrapped around her
finger in the best way.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Well, you know. I think the question then ride back
to you is how do you feel like you're gonna
be raising a girl? And are you excited for it?
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I I'm so excited. I need to start by saying
that I just always thought I was going to be
a boy mom, Like I grew up doing sports, I
grew up with brothers. I like just feel like I
would have a lot of fun with a little boy.
But now that I know it's a girl, I'm so
I feel like I'm just carrying my best friend and
my belly. Like I know the relationship I have with
(10:29):
my mom, and I just feel like we're gonna be
like the very best of friends. And she's gonna be
my little twin. And she might not be, but my prayers,
that were really good friends. And I'm so excited to
get all the girly things, Like we got a box
of bows from my mom, and I like that made
me so excited because I'm I'm just excited to be
a girl. Mom. I don't know every bit of it.
(10:51):
I'm excited to watch princess movies with her, dress up
with her. It's gonna be so fun.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I only know how to put a bow on a girl.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
And no, he didn't know how to open the bu No.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I didn't actually hurt my finger. I actually cut my
finger trying to do it. There's been some really fun
things that have happened that I think people would enjoy
hearing about, and I always enjoy joy hearing about it. Obviously,
this is something that we wanted, we planned for, we're
excited about. This wasn't like an unexpected shock to us,
but it's been an unexpected level of joy that I
(11:21):
think you and I both experienced. You've been a trooper.
You felt pretty terrible for a long time, like you've
been really sick through this journey, and now you're starting
to feel like, come, you know, to the other side.
Food isn't so much of a weird turn off, it's
now like you're more into it. Do you want to
elaborate on that at all?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah. I was really sick my first trimester, just in
every way you can possibly imagine. And I wouldn't take
nausee and medicine for a long time because that first trimester,
you like don't look pregnant, and the only way you
really feel pregnant is with your nausea. And I was like,
I just want the reminder that like, she's there and
she's good, because I always heard nauseum in a healthy baby,
(12:02):
but then it got to the point where I was like,
give me, give me the meds.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Like she's there, she's good, give me the meds.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
But yeah, it was the first trimester. Everyone said, it's
really hard. It's really hard. But looking back, like it's
a blur now.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
You know, Yeah, I guess for you, probably for me,
it feels like it was last week, which kind of was.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
You know.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
It's it's interesting to see just like evolve into this
mom like to be sick and kind of want to
be sick, like in this weird way, like I don't
understand it, and I'm so thankful that she's the one
carrying this child, because I think for me, i'd be like,
just give me the medicine right away. I don't want
to feel this at all. But you have just really
(12:47):
like enjoyed already kind of becoming a mom and being
a mom. It's been really fun to watch. Uh. But
obviously there have been, you know, stages to this process,
us of wanting to have a baby, waiting for that
positive test, waiting a few more weeks to tell anybody.
So you and I were just kind of living in
(13:08):
our own world. There's a spot out here in Colorado
that you've kind of been visiting and just praying. You've
shared about it on your social media, but prayer has
been a big kind of foundation for you during this time,
Like it's really been something you've leaned on. What have
you kind of learned through those moments of silence?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Yeah, I with my job, I talked to women all
day and I've heard great stories about pregnancy and horrible
stories about pregnancy and the highs and the lows, and
it's like terrified me a little bit. So I've had
a lot of days where I've just felt really uneasy
and like why should we have a healthy baby? Like
why do we get to have one? And so in
(13:54):
those moments, I've just gone and like sat and just
prayed a lot of prayers of like thankfulness and just
I can't believe I'm this lucky to have a healthy baby,
but also just like take away these anxieties, Like I
don't want to project those anxieties onto my baby, and
I also just don't want to feel that way when
this is a really exciting time. I know most first
(14:15):
time moms get those. You know, you're scared, you're like
responsible for this little life, and you want to do
everything to make sure it's okay, but a lot of
it's out of your control. So that the prayer garden
I go to, just it's brought me so much peace.
Like I just leave there and I'm like, ah, everything's okay.
Even if I can't control that, it's going to be okay.
(14:35):
So I think just like giving up a lot of
those control pieces has been huge for me.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
And that's been the most common prayer that you've been praying,
is the control piece.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Yeah, And like I don't want to feel anxious this
whole time, Like I don't want to feel anxious for
the next twenty four weeks. I want to continue to
be excited.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
You can feel anxious for the next twenty four weeks
because then I'll take over and.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Feel anxious to eighteen years.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Probably longer than that. Yeah, this, you know, I think
it's been really fun to just fun and you know,
it reminds you. I think it's a good reminder of
why we got married too. It was like what about
each other that we love, respected, appreciated. You know, you're
married for a few years, you're living life side by side.
(15:22):
We've had a really fun couple of years just the
two of us. And then you know, we we enter
into this new stage of life and you see how
your partner is reacting to it, and it's like, no,
this is why, you know, this is what I thought
I was getting at the beginning, you know, and why
we we wanted to commit to each other for the
rest of our lives. It is a really exciting time.
I would say personally, I have had many different emotions,
(15:47):
like I can't and I've we've talked about it. I
can't honestly say that the idea of having a chot
like a baby ever like euphorically brought joy to me.
When we were talking about it, I was like, I
know it's something I want to do. I know it's
something that I will enjoy doing. I have no clue
what that looks like. I don't even know what I'm
(16:08):
excited about. Yeah, but I'm not like I was. I
tried to be as honest with you as possible. It
was like I don't want to tell you, like, yes,
I am so overly excited about this. There was actually
like kind of like a numbness and emotion towards it.
There was an anxiety when we were talking through it
was more of just a I don't even know what
(16:28):
this means, Like I don't even know what this is
that I should be expecting. And I like to prepare
myself for big moments, and I couldn't prepare myself for this.
So then we find out we're pregnant. You're pregnant. We're
not pregnant. No, I'm very much not a part of
this team right now. I have zero role other than
(16:51):
just like kind of stay out of the way. But
and then when we find out we found out, I
was immediately so anxious, like so nervous, Like my mind
went to, what in the world am I about to do?
I'm not ready for this. I'm a child myself. I
don't have that anything prepared. What am I doing? Like,
(17:14):
how do we think this makes work? And then I
just kept remind myself when you're thirty five years old,
if you're not gonna do it now, you're never gonna
do it. Okay. Then the next stage was emotion. I
could watch the stupidest videos on Instagram or a commercial
(17:37):
with a child running up to their dad and just
start crying. And now I'm in this like really comfortable
place of peace, excitement. I think I understand better what
we're getting, Like, I don't think I'll ever fully understand
what it's like to raise a little baby, but you
just kind of jump in. But now I'm kind of
in this season of I think I know better enough
(17:59):
to be like we can do this together. But you
have felt like you've just been excited the whole time.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Yeah, I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Explain yourself, like how is this something like you're bringing
life into this world and yet like your peace of
mind and your joy and excitement has been consistent since
really the moment we started trying.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Yeah, I'm I'm gonna get tierry talking about it. But
like when I was little, when people asked what do
you want to be when you grew up? I always
said I wanted to be a mom. It was a
princess mom to be specific. Yeah, I want to be
a princess mommy up until like seventh grade, like when
it was like way inappropriate for that to be what
(18:43):
you want to be when you grew up. But like
I grew up nannying, i grew up babysitting. I've had cousins,
and I've just always had this like I want to
be a mom. And then when you and I got married,
I was like, Okay, I'm not ready to be a
mom yet, Like I want to really enjoy this time
just me and you. I like felt almost selfish with
my time with you because we dated long distance and
(19:05):
you and I have so much fun together just the
two of us. That then I went through a season
where I was like and we kind of talked about it,
like maybe we're not like kid people, like maybe we
don't do it.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
But then that did not wast long.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
No, it lasted for about a month, but we did
talk about it.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
We did.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
But then I don't know, something like in the last
year or whenever, we were like, this could be a
good time for us to start to think about a baby,
it was like go time, like so exciting. And then
because I've I've not taken the best care of my
body in the past. I've been really open about having
(19:41):
eating disorders, and I was a long distance runner, and
I've I thought I would never be able to carry
my own baby. And we talked about that too, even
before we got married, like I was getting testing done
to make sure like it was even a possibility, and
every doctor told me it was a possibility. But then
we were having a hard time. I was just kind
of like, what if this doesn't happen for me? And
(20:04):
it's it really is like my heart's desire. Since I
was an itty bitty girl, I used to carry my
baby dolls around. My mom would carry my little brother,
like I've had that instinct. So then when I found
out that we were like when I saw the positive
pregnancy test, it was like I just never thought that
was gonna happen for me, and the fact that it
(20:25):
has is just like I'm sorry, you can It's I've
never been this happy, Like I've never been so like
proud of my body and just even though it's changing
and it's sometimes uncomfortable, like I'm so excited for all
the changes and I'm so excited that I have this
baby growing because I never thought that i'd be able
(20:47):
to so even when it's hard, and even when I
was so sick, I was just so like excited. And
I've just been so grateful this whole time. But yeah,
I've like I've genuinely I don't think i've been this
happy since like you and I got engaged and married,
Like I have just had so much, I know, but
(21:13):
I mean those are like these are Those are like
the two biggest moments of joy I've had. So I
can't even imagine meeting her. I'm just like, I'm so
thankful that I'm able to have a baby. I never
thought i'd be able to, So I just feel really
excited and like so grateful.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Yeah, you should be proud of yourself too, Like I
don't know how to I don't even know how to
say it. I don't know if I ever have. But
it is interesting with your your past and just having
you know, this long distance running career and having to
keep your body in what you imagine and what people
were kind of telling you in this like really like
(21:52):
lean overly like athletic state, and then the repercussions from
that for you emotionally, mentally, physically, and now for like
your biggest fear out of that like kind of the
unknown of Yeah, but what else has this done to
my body? And for you now to be pregnant is
like a really big thing to celebrate and just hopefully
(22:15):
like some like peace.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Yeah, it's it has given me so much peace, and
like just I just feel like this baby is such
a sign of like redemption. Like there's there's nothing that
like I can do that can't be undone almost even
that's probably an over generalization and not true, but I.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Really do feel that way right now in this season,
in this I think it's very fair for you to
feel that way. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Yeah, so I don't know. I'm just I'm so excited
and thankful.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
It is a big deal. Jessica's pregnant and Ben.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Has been so sweet in this pregnancy. He's like dropped
everything to go get frozen yogurt with me. He's made
me what I want for dinner, which.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Is which is wild. Like the dinner stuff doesn't make
any sense. I mean sometimes it's mac and cheese with
ice cream, yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Or like all I want is like plain buttered pasta,
Like that's like sounds so good to me all the time.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Yeah, it's been weird.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Land no vegetables.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
We've had fun with it though, and we're having a
great time. We're very excited to be parents. We're ready prepared.
Final kind of like rapid fire, honey questions for you
just to kind of answer anything that was written in
so we can kind of go through it. Do we
have any names picked out? You don't have to share
them because I was told by wells Adams to not
share the baby names because it opens you up for
(23:37):
more feedback than what you really want.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
I've heard that too, so we're not going to share them.
But we do have a top three list that is
open to change. But we feel pretty good about our
top three.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
How did we come up with the baby announcement idea?
Speaker 3 (23:51):
I asked you how you wanted to announce the baby,
and you said you wanted a video of our love story,
so we made one.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
That video wrecked me too. I just I feel like
I'm holding on by a thread any moment I am libel,
Like right now, I'm liable to break down the nursery.
Do you want to share kind of the theme of
the nursery? I kind of think I did last week,
maybe more than I expected to. So do you want
(24:19):
to share the theme and why it's the theme.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
We're doing a very subtle, not like over the top,
Winnie the Pooh theme, So we're gonna have some little
Winnie the Pooh elements because Ben and I love Winnie
the Pooh. It was both of our favorites growing up,
and we had some of our best friends read one
of the Pooh quotes at our wedding, like it's just
been a big part of our love story randomly. So
it's gonna have some little Winnie the Pooh elements. And
(24:44):
then Ben wants to paint the walls pink, which just
melted me.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Goodness, I do want to paint them pink?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Is so sweet.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Yeah, we're gonna paint them pink. It's gonna be really
pretty goodness. All right, final question for you, Han, what
is the thing you're most excited to teach your new
baby girl?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Oh my gosh, like deeper surface level, whatever you want, Like,
what's the first thing that comes to mind? I really
can't wait to watch Disney movies with you.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Yeah, I thought that would be.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
I can't wait to like show her all the princess stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
You've been waiting for an excuse to watch Disney movies
for a long time.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
You might have to rewatch before to make sure, like
they're appropriate.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I think anything's appropriate.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
For me.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
I think I think what Like when it's the question
of what I want to tea what I'm my most
excited teacher? I think I'm really excited just show her
what family she's entering into, Like we have great parents,
incredible siblings, really great like aunts and uncles and grandparents
(25:54):
and just like we got a really good thing going
and I feel very grateful for that. Like every night
when I go to bed, I pray that I'm thankful
for you and our dog and a baby girl and
then this amazing family and now everybody gets that, and
so I'm excited for her to meet them.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Yeah. I've said this to so many, like all the
people that are shared in our joy, our friends, our family,
everybody like this baby. I just I can't imagine someone
coming to the world more love than our daughter.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Goodness are we have a full closet already.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
We've got a hand me down.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
I've asked people not to give us stuff.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Oh goodness, She's got a lot of hand me downs, but.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Not all hand me down.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
And a lot of people out lover her.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Goodness. We'll keep you updated as we go. We want
to do this with almost famous listeners because we haven't
done an interview yet. You've kind of kept it close
to our chest, you know. But we're very excited. We're
very ready, though, as ready as you can be. Wailing
gonna be great. He's already sleeping on top of Jess
at night literally like head on the belly. I think
(27:04):
he's gonna rock and roll this thing in the best
of ways. He's going to be such a stud. So
everybody's really ready, everybody's really prepared. We're excited. Uh, but
we'll keep you updated as big things happen. A way
to go, you have a long ways to go. My
life hasn't changed that much, so until next time, I've
(27:24):
been Ben Jess. We'll share the name of the baby
girl who's with us as well when she's born.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
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